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Cult of Ignorance

What Congress will look like in 2015.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

Isaac Asimov

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Mysteries & a few other things

Mysteries of the Unexplained – excerpts from a book of the bizarre
Capitalize My Title – a handy tool
“copcar dot com, the largest police car photographic museum in the world”
Green Drop recycling
OverClocked ReMix – Video Game Music Community
Burlesque Dancer Twerks To Beethoven

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Langston Hughes – Annotated Map of the US

Back in the 40s Langston Hughes annotated a melting pot map created by Emma Bourne for The Council Against Intolerance in America.

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All I Want For Christmas Is Links

Confused Pig
The Harvest, a book concerning UFOs, Hidden Government, Illuminati, The Annunaki
Mormon-Centric Utah Epicenter For Food Storage
The Best of Code Switch in 2013
Strictly Beats – instrumental hip-hop mixtapes
Northern Soul Girl Dances to HAPPY – Pharrell vs Northern Soul
Parisian graffiti block “Graffiti Generale” preserved in digital 3d ahead of demolition

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Stories, stories, and more links about stories

I’m thinking about narration and narratives and sharing recently.

Doug Fishbone and friends – Adventureland Golf, a conceptual-art miniature golf course
Bite – Felt Up, strange stories told via puppets
Why people love to get lost in books, a brief essay
100 books that SHOULD be written
Four Literary Short Films, “like a music video, for books.”
Outside Lands podcast, history and preservation in San Francisco
Do You Speak Science, a blog about science and words
Trayvon Redux, a poem by Rita Dove
Hi, moments of narratives, shown on maps
Bagels and Grits, a just-starting-out paired-photo blog in the spirit of 3191 Miles Apart and Hipsters and Clogs
Hacking Teddy Ruxpin, exactly what you think it is
Incomplete manifesto for growth, a set of guidelines
750 Words, a site that is sort of a gamification of daily writing

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Ditty, Camelopard and Tornado Safety

A nice little ditty by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.

When you don’t know the right word you stick with what you know, the Camelopard.

Where you won’t find tornadoes.

A strong case could easily be made that reading these magazines would likely make you less knowledgable.

A strong case could easily be made that reading these magazines would likely make you less knowledgable.

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